Speaking & Media
Speaking & Media
I regularly speak at conferences, on panels, and in industry forums, and occasionally join podcasts and other media formats, on physical AI, robotics systems engineering, humanoid robotics, safety and engineering rigor, real-world robot learning and deployment, and the industrialization of robotics - including Europe's role in the field.
Most of these appearances happen because of my role at NEURA Robotics, but the perspective is my own: a robotics systems engineer's view of where the field is heading, not a corporate one.
Upcoming
Keynote
Breaking the Wall of Europe's Unrealized Potential: Physical AI Roundtable
Roundtable der BCG Deep Tech Session zu Physical AI: was heute schon einsetzbar ist, was die Skalierung bremst (KI-Infrastruktur, europäische Foundation-Modelle, physische Daten) und welche Standortchancen Hochlohnländer durch die Automatisierung komplexer Fertigung haben.
How to Build and Scale the European AI Ecosystem
Panel zu Aufbau und Skalierung des europäischen KI-Ökosystems: bisherige Erfolge, Europas größte KI-Chance heute und was Europa beibehalten und was ändern sollte.
Vision and Roadmap for Building the Humanoid Brain: From Perception to Intelligence
Industrial Talk zum Weg von der Wahrnehmung zur Intelligenz im Humanoiden: Vision und Roadmap für das Gehirn humanoider Roboter und wie Europas Fertigungs- und Datenexpertise Intelligenz in die Praxis bringt.
The Robotics Platform Era: Challenges and Success Factors for Scaling Humanoid Robots
Keynote
Impulsvortrag
Selected talks & panels
From Europe, for the World: Building the Ecosystem for Physical AI
NEURA Robotics - Chancen, Herausforderungen und Wachstumsstrategie
Beyond the Lab: What It Takes to Ship Physical AI
The Future of Intelligent Robotics
Panel: Automotive and Robotics Trust Foundations
Panel: Humanoid Robotics for Europe's Energy Grid
Physical AI
Panel: How General Purpose Robotics is Rewiring Industry
Panel: AI x Industrie
Keynote
Closing Keynote: The Entrepreneurship Journey
Panel: The Future of Cognitive Manufacturing — An Executive Dialogue on Physical AI
Real-World Training for Real-World Humanoid Robot Applications
Podiumsdiskussion
Intelligenz in jeder Form – Neuras Ansatz für kognitive Robotik
VS04 – The Future of Physical AI: Robotics Beyond Imagination
Cognitive Robots - A New Era of Robotics
Panel: Humanoide Roboter – Die nächste Generation der Robotik?
Kognitive Robotik – die nächste Generation Roboter
Intelligent Robotics
Humanoide Roboter – Einsatz in der Industrie?
Kognitive Roboter – Trumpfkarte der Menschheit
AI and Safety in Cognitive Robotics
Kognitive Robotik: Konsequentes »One Device Thinking« für flexible Produktionsabläufe
Interviews & podcasts
Interviews and podcast conversations about robotics, Physical AI, and deployment.
KI aus Europa – NEURA Robotics baut humanoide Roboter für die Industrie
Podcast-Folge zu humanoiden Robotern, die Menschen Arbeit in Fabriken und zuhause abnehmen können – NEURA Robotics aus Metzingen als europäischer Akteur in diesem künftigen Milliardenmarkt, der bislang von US- und chinesischen Firmen dominiert wird.
IFA 2025: Neura's Humanoid Robots Could Become Everyday Products Sooner Than Expected
An interview at IFA about humanoid robot applications, learning through real-world interaction, and NEURA's commitment against military uses.
Press & Features
Independent reporting in which I contributed as a quoted source or interview subject.
Beine, die die Welt bedeuten
On the timeline for humanoid robots to reach everyday household use, quoted in his VP Technology & Innovation role.
Neura Robotics bringt intelligente Roboter in die Industrie
Quoted on NEURA's growth while accepting third place in the Handelsblatt/McKinsey "The Spark" award.
So werden humanoide und mobile Roboter sicher
On robot safety engineering - the Omnisensor, Performance Level e, and redundant, diverse sensor fusion for humanoid and mobile robots.
Humanoider Roboter von Neura im Messestress
On the real-world technical challenges of running the 4NE-1 humanoid at automatica - environmental conditions, training, connectivity, and the gap between controlled demos and real-world operation.
Gangarten
From well before NEURA: as a PhD candidate at Bielefeld University, sharing impressions from that year's iCub Summer School on humanoid gait research and hardware development.
Kurz verlinkt (12)
A short post linking my investigation into how a false Wikipedia claim about the German women's football team spread into news coverage and a presidential speech.
Books & publications
Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 7)
Co-authored chapter: Micro-ROS
Co-author, with the micro-ROS team, of a chapter on extending ROS 2 to microcontrollers, covering architecture, APIs, tutorials, and applications.
Smarte Maschinen: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz unser Leben verändert
Acknowledged
Named in the author's acknowledgments among the scientists who gave him a look into their labs and explained their latest work for his 2015 research trips, alongside Jochen Steil in Bielefeld.
Alles über Wikipedia
Kaffeeservice und Bügelbrett: Von der Wikipedia ohne Umweg in die Köpfe
An essay tracing how a false Wikipedia claim reached news coverage, based on my 2007 investigation.
Other mentions
Selected reports from event organizers, with their context identified.
Building Trust for Autonomy to Scale
The organizer's recap of the panel listed above, discussing my example of welders judging a weld by sound and the reliability challenges when a robot's task or environment changes.